The Lincoln Project republicans came out in full force last December, declaring in a New York Times op-ed their mission of defeating both Trump this November as well as Trumpism, meaning they are seeking to erase the republican majority in the senate. This majority, in their view, has enabled Trump and promises similarly damaging leadership….
Noted nineteenth-century American writer Henry David Thoreau, opens his 1849 essay “Resistance to Civil Government,†one of the most famous political essays of all time, with the immortal lines: “I heartily accept the motto,–“That government is best which governs least;†and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried…
Many right-wing conservative tea party Republicans in Congress were mad when Congress passed a budget and spending bill greatly increasing the U.S. deficit.  In the spending bill was a massive increase in military spending, making the defense portion of the budget well over $700 billion. So what did President Trump decide to do to appease his…
If intolerant white males have the right to respond violently solely on account of your appearance, you don’t really have any rights at all.
Fox News’ Laura Ingraham complains, “The Republican Party is led by people who have more in common with the Clintons than with the GOP base”
“3 Dallas Cops killed, 7 wounded. This is now war. Watch out Obama. Watch out black lives matter punks. Real America is coming after you.â€
Now if only Democrats would make a special effort to demonstrate to moderates that a major contributor to this country’s problems is conservative Christians and moderates pandering to evangelical fanatics forcing religion on the country, voters might wake up.
The Kochs want to convince Americans that they really love America. They just hate that America has a government they do not yet control
The Koch brothers have no right to complain about the tone of Republican politics because it is exactly what they paid for and wanted
William M. Daly mistakenly claims the GOP’s “insanity” began when Senator John McCain chose Sarah Palin to be his running mate in 2008
Support for the tea party has hit a record low, as the American people are finished with the extremist right wing movement.
Donald Trump is popular, he calls himself a Tea Partier, but the Tea Party is less popular today than ever before. What gives?
Ted Cruz picked up the endorsement of notorious bigot Sandy Rios, wowed the haters at a Texas megachurch, and won the Tea Party caucus in NC
The recent revelation of a House Freedom Caucus ‘questionnaire for prospective candidates for the Speakers’ position clears up why Republicans are terrified of being Speaker, and why there is no good outcome as long as Cruz’s House Freedom Caucus is allowed to exist.
The two leading candidates for House speaker are mirror images and both will dutifully follow the Ted Cruz shut-down-the-government agenda
Where they have “failed to achieve Republican goals” is in establishing a theocracy, eliminating taxation and 98 percent of the Constitution
Florida Libertarian Senate candidate August us Sol Invictus is bound to be an embarrassment for the Libertarian Party.
With the tea party taking the wheel, the crazies can move forward with their plan to dismantle functioning government.
A Tea Party rally was the perfect venue for Trump again mindlessly unleashing an angry response by being really, really clueless
A Kelli Ward victory over McCain would increase the odds for Democrat Rep. Kirkpatrick to win the general election and become US Senator.
Bruce Bartlett says policies don’t matter for the GOP, only attitude. “And Trump has exactly the right ‘chip on your shoulder’ attitude”
A party that invents “facts” and then claims all future discourse must be based on their fictional evidence should not be allowed on TV
A local newspaper lashed out at Kirk’s extreme rhetoric on the Iran deal, calling him the love child of Michele Bachmann and Ted Cruz.
In a stark contrast with Bernie Sanders’ appearances, Trump was less interested in the issues than in convoluted stories and justifications for his behavior.
With the state budget forecast to have a 400 million dollar shortfall, Kansas Republicans are finally acknowledging that the massive GOP tax cuts approved under Governor Sam Brownback have not generated the revenue Republican lawmakers promised. The right-wing Kansas Legislature is now contemplating the unthinkable — raising taxes to plug the budget hole. The legislature…
At a craft brewery in Hampton, New Hampshire, Hillary Clinton called out her Republican presidential opponents for sacrificing American jobs to appease the billionaire Koch Brothers and talk radio Tea Party extremists.
It is hard to believe Jeb Bush really wants to be president, with the things he says. Maybe it’s just that he’s missing a Dick Cheney of his own
A national PPP poll finds that 32 percent of Republican voters believe “the government is trying to take over Texas”.
A Monmouth University Poll found that Chris Christie is exceedingly unpopular in his home state even with Republicans.
Take heart my Hispanic and Latino brothers and sisters. You’re not the only ones whose presence in the U.S. makes Republican’s skin crawl. At least if the parsed bigotry of South Carolina Republican Representative Trey Gowdy and some of his colleagues and constituents is any indication.
Texas GOP Congressman Louie Gohmert issued a statement on May 5, 2015, that gives voice to the bizarre Jade Helm 15 conspiracy theory.
Although the Florida Republican Party has one-party control of the state government, they are simply unable and unwilling to govern.
During a week when both Tea Party darling Marco Rubio and Fox “News” nemesis Hillary “Benghazi” Clinton announced they are running to be the next President of the United States, it’s instructive to contrast the stark difference in how the two candidates are covered on the Fox “News” Channel.
Hillary Clinton leads Scott Walker 52-40 in his home state, and Russ Feingold is up 54-38 over GOP Senator Ron Johnson.
PoliticusUSA’s Friday Fox Follies writer, Headly Westerfield, reports from the Marco Rubio Campaign Kick-Off in Miami.
In a radio interview, former GOP Congresswoman Michele Bachmann asserted that President Obama’s policies will lead to World War III.
Montana’s House voted 54-46 to approve federal subsidies for Medicaid expansion, with 13 Republicans joining 41 Democrats to pass the bill.
A PPP poll shows Ted Cruz pulling into contention with Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush.
I still believe there are points to be made about the issue of California attorney, Matthew Gregory McLaughlin and his “Sodomite Suppression Act” (SSA).
Hypocritical Republican lawmakers like Ted Cruz could have gone for a “private market” solution, but instead they chose to let you subsidize their healthcare via Obamacare.
When Pink Floyd sang that “we don’t need no education,” I don’t think church ministries are what they had in mind.
“I am running for president and I hope to earn your support,” Ted Cruz tweeted last night. Does he really think he can get it?
Early polling suggests that if Democrat Russ Feingold decides to mount a comeback Senate bid, Wisconsin will back him all the way.
It turns abouta whole slew of Republicans looking at the White House in 2016 has used private emails for government business
Potential 2016 GOP Presidential candidate Ben Carson appeared on CNN’s New Day Wednesday morning and told host Chris Cuomo that prisons prove that being gay is a choice.
Appearing on Luke Russert’s online MSNBC TV program, Shift, New York Congressman Peter King (R) slammed fellow House Republicans for not simply banding together to pass a clean funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security. King made it clear that he was fed up with Tea Party Republicans playing politics with Homeland Security funding….
Friday morning, at CPAC, Senator Rubio told an audience that he had learned that his previous support for immigration reform was a mistake.
Republicans have sold their souls, assuming they have any, to white nationalists who believe mixing races is rebellion against God
A PPP poll, released on the eve of CPAC, shows Hillary Clinton leading the entire GOP field by margins of 7 to 10 percentage points.
A spokesman for Walker declared that the Governor would sign into law a controversial right-to-work measure, if and when it hits his desk.
Dr. Ben Carson implied that Barack Obama could be guilty of treason if he fights Congress on a clean bill for funding Homeland Security.
A George W. Bush appointed judge ignored the Constitution while substituting his own policy whims in ruling that blocked President Obama’s immigration executive order.
Boehner twisted history to claim that “the American people can’t afford a repeat of the same old top-down policies of the past”
A pair of Tea Party Congressmen are reportedly drawing up plans to challenge Arizona Senator John McCain in the 2016 GOP Senate primary.
Fiery Florida populist Alan Grayson is considering running for Marco Rubio’s U.S. Senate seat in 2016.
During Sunday morning’s broadcast of Fox & Friends, co-host Charles Payne outlandishly claimed that the United States “saved the planet” and moved a billion people into the middle class by engaging in war across the globe.
During Wednesday night’s broadcast of The Daily Show, host Jon Stewart took aim at the multiple Republican responses to this year’s State of the Union address.
The GOP is poised for an epic clash of plutocrats that is likely to split establishment donors and benefit the Tea Party
Former one-term Republican Congressman Joe Walsh sent out a series of tweets Wednesday calling for Islamists to target the “appeasing cowards” at CNN and MSNBC first if the United States was to suffer another terrorist attack.
Continuing GOP civil war, Rep. Richard Nugent of Florida vents Tea Party dissatisfaction with John Boehner’s leadership and competence.
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback’s attempt to make his state a model for Tea Party governance has ended in abject failure.
Despite the backing of Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin, Louie Gohmert received just three votes in his bid to unseat House Speaker Boehner.
Tea Baggers love Louie Gohmert, which may explain why the man sounds barely sane to the rest of us. McCain got it in one: the man is an idiot
Are the protesters responsible for the death of the officers? If yes, then the Tea Party is responsible for the death of the two Las Vegas officers.
Where once three-quarters had been Protestants alone, now barely three quarters are even Christian, and the numbers continue to drop
During an appearance on Fox News’ The Kelly File Thursday night, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) criticized Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) for agreeing with President Obama’s decision to normalize the United States’ relationship with Cuba.
According to Judson Phillips, because a black youth shot at a police officer, and the black youth killed, #whitelivesmatter
Rachel Maddow called out the mainstream political media for trying to turn liberals like Elizabeth Warren and Nancy Pelosi into the tea party.
Bachmann’s flight from Dana Bash is a metaphor for an endless flight from reality, which pretty much describes her entire time in Congress
Outgoing Republican Congressman Steve Stockman and three of his aides have been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury as part of a criminal investigation.
Republicans blame Obama for not putting policies into effect that either (A) belonged in a fun house or (B) that the House wouldn’t pass, all while cloaked in the garb of wanting the best for their constituents.
Democrats are now people who can have our heads held under water until we stop breathing, who can be “made to squeal,” not like pigs and the media will remain silent
Republican strategist Frank Luntz said that after winning the Senate majority, Republicans should work with Democrats and President Obama to find “common-sense solutions” to a number of issues. Luntz was behind the plan to create gridlock in Washington to hurt Democrats and Obama.
With an eye on a two year gravy train, Palin put the GOP on notice; she’ll be trolling them for the next two years.
Following Obamacare’s bumpy rollout, the GOP expected to campaign on a platform of repeal, repeal, repeal. However, as Americans have come to embrace much of the Affordable Care Act in substance, if not yet in name, campaigning on all out repeal has lost its luster.
If the person who you elected to represent you only listens to you when you are saying what he wants to hear, then perhaps it’s time to choose someone else to represent you.
Gov. Scott Walker is reeling in Wisconsin. Will Tea Party extremism trump Clinton and Obama support for Mary Burke?
Former executive director of the South Carolina Republican Party Todd Kincannon sent out a tweet Wednesday evening saying Michael Brown’s parents shouldn’t be upset because they are pro-choice Democrats and “they got a taxpayer-funded abortion.”
If you live in Wisconsin, you have heard of the alleged “Wisconsin comeback” touted by Governor Scott Walker. This is not to be confused with the Green Bay Packer comeback, and you should not relax. After their 1-2 start, QB Aaron Rodgers took to ESPN to tell fans, “Five letters here just for everybody out…
Let’s be grateful to New York City for keeping this mess in the headlines, for trying to find real ways to work around the inertia on Capitol Hill to bring people together, even if it takes a little self-interested carrot dangling. That’s the American way!
Jeff Denham is a typical teabagger-Republican in that his campaign rhetoric is dictated by the Koch’s Americans for Prosperity and founded on monumental lies meant to frighten his supporters into voting against their own best self-interests; which they do with great enthusiasm.
The Republican civil war is getting nasty as Speaker of the House John Boehner is hoping that his friends in big business will help him neutralize the “nuts” in the tea party that have pushed the House to the extreme right.
This monumental victory for North Carolina concluded a historic week nationwide for marriage equality. Ten states in the past week alone have now been added to the list of states where gay marriage is recognized, bringing the total number of states up to 29.
Republican Senate Candidate Joni Ernst could be in some hot water over county public contracts awarded to her father’s company when she served as the county’s auditor. Ernst is running against Democrat Bruce Braley for Iowa’s open US Senate seat.
According to the Department of Workforce Development, “there is no reasonable cause to believe that the wages paid to the complainants are not a living wage”
The White House gives us facts; the GOP gives us fear-mongering. Which would you prefer as a response to the most deadly disease of modern times?
Calls for the Progressives to “break up” with the Democratic Party as an abusive partner miss the mark. The problems is actually their neglect of the party.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie likes to pretend that he’s a moderate, bipartisan straight-talker, but when it comes down to it, he’s a just as beholden to the Tea Party/Koch Brother agenda as any Republican.
In a classic case of not knowing one’s audience, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Tea Party leader and potential 2016 Presidential candidate, was soundly booed off stage while delivering a speech at an Arab Christian conference in Washington, D.C. Wednesday night.
Mitch McConnell is a man on the run from a disastrous week for the Republican Party.
The right wing war on education continues. One of the most active organizations in the right wing’s fight against Common Core is the Home School Legal Defense Association. On the surface, this does not make sense. Why should the HSLDA a group for home schooling parents, care so much about standards that don’t apply…
Gallup has super bad news for Republicans who rely on low voter turnout to win elections.
Two recent events have brought out the Republican Party’s inner racist demon — the GOP’s Senate primary runoff election in Mississippi and the current crisis at the border involving migrant children from Central America.
On Monday evening, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) appeared on The Mark Levin Show to discuss, among other things, the recent GOP primary runoff election in Mississippi. He complained multiple times about the “DC machine.”
The idea that progressives need to break up with the Democratic Party, that it’s “Time to get out of this abusive relationship” is based on a false premise
A year ago Friday marked the one year anniversary since the Senate passed a comprehensive immigration reform bill with bipartisan support. It still sits in seemingly permanent limbo in the House.
Tuesday night Rep. James Lankford (R-OK) easily defeated former Oklahoma House Speaker TW Shannon in Oklahoma’s US Senate Republican primary. Lankford will move on to the general election this November.
With children fleeing violence and poverty in Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador; there is a humanitarian crises in our border states.
Jindal says Common Core is a federal plot to takeover education, as though the Founding Fathers didn’t support the public funding of education.
During the broadcast of his AM talk radio show The Answer Thursday evening, former one-term Republican Congressman Joe Walsh live-tweeted that he was being censored by his radio station from having an “honest conversation” about racial slurs.
